There are jobs for Nigerians, our major problem is misplaced curriculum

[Eze BTC]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

[Africolo]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

You're outrightly correct about this assertion, there are millions of jobs in Nigeria but the government has refused to open opportunities to employ graduates and this has made many Youths go into crime, gambling and drugs abuse in other to survive they intend to do anything, in other developed countries they make provisions for different courses in their curriculum and once a child is good at any of it in his tender age, they immediately send the person to go and learn it and they get employed after graduation.

Here in Nigeria getting a job is by connection and Man know Man, even those that are old and should have retired so they can rest will work on their ages and duration of service and keeps earning salary, there are so many gooese workers in the system some persons are even death but the permanent secretaries and other government officials keep their names on vouchers and be receiving their salaries on their behalf and be pocketing all the money, Nigeria is so corrupt that it will be difficult for it to get better anyday.

[Jubilee58]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

You have spoken well. In some of our Nigerian universities, some of the courses they study their are obsolete and lacks relevance in the labour market. These courses that are not relevant in the labour market should be scrabbed a d incorporate relevant courses into the university curriculum and system. Like you said, their are jobs, as a Nigerian, if you read good course, if you don't work here in Nigeria, you can work abroad. These courses you mentioned are hot cake in the labour market, if go online for job search you will see many vacancies on cyber security, Robotics, and Blockchain. This courses are not studied in our Nigerian universities and those who are opportune to study some of these courses either through online studies are here in Nigeria but are working abroad.

When I was in the university, I studied civil engineering but I studied plenty of the management courses, they want you to learn all the courses so that you can work anywhere, this is actually a wrong way of studying because their is no way you can know everything. By right, a student should only concentrate on his field of study and should not combine other courses to his main area of study, doing that can confuse a student and make your concentration divided.

Another vital thing that most our Nigerian universities lack is good practical, our Nigerian universities should prioritize practical, more especially the engineering students. Here in Nigeria, students will graduate from engineering department but does not have the full practical knowledge of the course that he or she read, is actually wrong.

If our government have the progress and the development of this country Nigeria at heart, they have to look into all these things and incorporate good courses into our Nigerian universities, doing this will help us develop in technologies, produce graduates of international standard from Nigeria.

[Progress101]

Many people start feeling stuck even before they graduate, because they cant even see where their course actually leads. When the answer is always “you can work anywhere,” it just creates confusion and quiet fear about the future. Its so unfortunate that the entire world has moved on but our curriculum has not, we are still training student for world that no longer exists. you see skills like cybersecurity, AI, and blockchain are already shaping jobs today, yet Nigerian students are left to learn them on their own, most times from unverified sources. it is just so sad and very unfortunate.

[LOVER BOY 422]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

It is very sad in Nigeria after you are graduation, is not what you read in school that you work for Nigeria ,students are really suffering going through hells after school they will work where they are not supposed to work, what they will work it will be another thing entirely different and this situation of Nigeria it is painful, in many occasion I pray that a good leader should come and help this country because the situation is no go area is no longer working the way we expect to work,the system has automatically changed,if you submit your CV you will work in another different way where you didn't study this is the problem,how can someone who study farming be a doctor,why not they work accordingly to what someone studied.

[Eze BTC]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

It is very sad in Nigeria after you are graduation, is not what you read in school that you work for Nigeria ,students are really suffering going through hells after school they will work where they are not supposed to work, what they will work it will be another thing entirely different and this situation of Nigeria it is painful, in many occasion I pray that a good leader should come and help this country because the situation is no go area is no longer working the way we expect to work,the system has automatically changed,if you submit your CV you will work in another different way where you didn't study this is the problem,how can someone who study farming be a doctor,why not they work accordingly to what someone studied.

I don't think that's the problem. People work elsewhere because that's where they find job. The employment world is occupied. They graduate lots people in a particular field to compete with many people that are looking for job in same field. The way out for them is seeking job where they see job and feel they can handle just to make living.

The problem is that what our universities prioritize is no longer in high demand as before. Because they're not in high demands again as before, companies or other institutions can't employ more people when what they do is not in high demand. That is why I said they should incorporate courses that are highly demanded with few professionals into our official curriculum and update the curriculum we are running to satisfy modern realities even in fields we have had since because the pattern of work now and before not same. Let them incorporate those new fields. It will reduce focus in those fields that fully occupied and are not even in high demands.

[Solodoski]

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

I think you are very correct when you say we refuse to update our curriculum and that's one of the major issues why people don't get jobs after graduation. Like you mentioned imagine a department that teaches cyber security, AI etc. I believe that will really help a lot of undergraduate to have a direction on where they are going to work after graduating and they don't end up looking for jobs like the case has always been in the country.
That aside, I don't know if anyone has noticed that during exams in the university, they just recycle the questions and you will be surprised that you are answering the same questions that has been giving to students of over 20 years ago. That just shows that the curriculum is not update, because what they don't realize is that the world 20 years ago and now are totally different,  so you don't expect what works for people 20 years ago to still work for this generation.  The government really need to look into this things and make our education better.
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[Eze BTC]

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

I think you are very correct when you say we refuse to update our curriculum and that's one of the major issues why people don't get jobs after graduation. Like you mentioned imagine a department that teaches cyber security, AI etc. I believe that will really help a lot of undergraduate to have a direction on where they are going to work after graduating and they don't end up looking for jobs like the case has always been in the country.
That aside, I don't know if anyone has noticed that during exams in the university, they just recycle the questions and you will be surprised that you are answering the same questions that has been giving to students of over 20 years ago. That just shows that the curriculum is not update, because what they don't realize is that the world 20 years ago and now are totally different,  so you don't expect what works for people 20 years ago to still work for this generation.  The government really need to look into this things and make our education better.
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Exactly! That's part of the problems. Same teaching pattern, same exam approach, same everything. Very funny. For the fact that they've failed to effect changes that reflect on modern realities, our academic system will keep being funny and terrible.

[Rubuchi]

Many people start feeling stuck even before they graduate, because they cant even see where their course actually leads. When the answer is always “you can work anywhere,” it just creates confusion and quiet fear about the future. Its so unfortunate that the entire world has moved on but our curriculum has not, we are still training student for world that no longer exists. you see skills like cybersecurity, AI, and blockchain are already shaping jobs today, yet Nigerian students are left to learn them on their own, most times from unverified sources. it is just so sad and very unfortunate.

Our universities really need to work more on our school curriculum to teach more practical knowledge than abstract. Many of our universities do not really have the educational capacity and resources to graduate university students who are rip enough to stand out in the market and take advantage of the knowledge to become independent and this is the reason why many of these graduates are looking for government or private jobs up and down and do not have that capability to develop an idea they can thrive on.

[ArabBTC]

Students graduate in Nigeria and start spending their working age looking for meaningful jobs. The new graduate gets frustrated even from last level in school thinking about way forward in life. The truth is that, there are jobs. The only problem is that we learn things that are not in high demands.

Over the years, for decades, our curriculum has been same. We have refused to move with the world as a country.
In as much as some of the courses taught many years ago in Nigeria are still relevant, there's need to update the curriculum to incorporate modern realities.

You can imagine that no university in Nigeria is prioritizing cyber security, AI, Bitcoin investment etc. There should be special field that will involve them. Imagine a school with a department called Cyber Security department? That would be amazing. Sadly these courses are taught only as skills from normal people instead of approved institutions, exposing students to being scammed online and offline by people that'd offer training them in exchange of their money. If there are approved institutions like universities taking these courses as priority, such wouldn't happen.

Our school system in Nigeria is not willing to prepare us for the future, even the present. What they take as priority is creating departments that they can't explain directly where one should work. These departments, you start hearing YOU CAN WORK ANYWHERE from your 100 level, thereby making students already discouraged from beginning of the journey since there's no direct answer to the usefulness of what they are studying.

The major reason for increasing unemployment rate in Nigeria isn't because there are no jobs, but because we focus as a country in training students in fields that are not in high demand. There are courses that you will do, even before graduation, you've landed yourself jobs home and away. Example of such courses are the ones mentioned above. We can't keep training students in fields that when they graduate or even before graduation, they will then start taking other skills to survive because no job for what they studied.

All your points are valid, as a matter of fact i think that our new generation needs so much of reorientation, even our parents too, they must learn to accept and understand new trends, the world keeps on evolving and the only way to survive is to pitch once craft in the current trend, our parents must also advise and the educate the new generation because lots of professionals that was useful in the past is no longer useful today.

Take for instance a course like accounting, it was a hot cake before but today people can balance their spreadsheet by simply imputing commands into the computer, so most accountants will end up not being relevant, even some jobs are currently taken over by robots, so it then means any one going for a course has to be skeptical on which one exactly he or she is doing so it won’t be useless at the end, trust me there are good jobs but majority of people lack a good qualification to fit in, u can see majority of persons going in for mass communication yearly knowing fully well that AI can even make broadcast and very few Tv/radio stations exist in the country, so tell me how such persons will remain relevant. We really need reorientation in the country so that things will turn around for the best.